Yeah, it definitely shouldn't. But that's me, hacking together whatever I could to see that unsatisfying rocket launch and finally get the game out of my head. So I'd build something new and supply it from a steel conveyor that had a supply buffer, under estimating how much it would actually use. Then it would eat too much and cause a shortage, which meant other components somewhere else overflowed through lack of use, and overall progress would slow down until I ramped up steel production some more. That sort of thing.
So, ideally, everything would go smooth. And plenty of the time for me it did! But a tiny flaw could also be magnified through the system and suddenly I can't produce yellow research bulbs because I was two steel furnaces short of actual demand needed to for servo arms, and production would have peaks and valleys until the additional supply smoothed things out.
Yeah, it definitely shouldn't. But that's me, hacking together whatever I could to see that unsatisfying rocket launch and finally get the game out of my head. So I'd build something new and supply it from a steel conveyor that had a supply buffer, under estimating how much it would actually use. Then it would eat too much and cause a shortage, which meant other components somewhere else overflowed through lack of use, and overall progress would slow down until I ramped up steel production some more. That sort of thing.
So, ideally, everything would go smooth. And plenty of the time for me it did! But a tiny flaw could also be magnified through the system and suddenly I can't produce yellow research bulbs because I was two steel furnaces short of actual demand needed to for servo arms, and production would have peaks and valleys until the additional supply smoothed things out.